SAP Development Team Leader

SAP Development Team Leader

The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world‑class university.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more. Find out more about our benefits and join us to become part of something special.

To meet University strategic aims, a product and service‑led strategic framework has been developed to allow the IT team to iteratively co‑design, develop and deliver new and existing services for our customers. This role will be critical to the delivery of this new and innovative approach.

IT Services at the University of Sheffield provide a full range of complex IT and technology enabled services that support education, research, workplace, corporate services and infrastructure enablers to all our staff and students. This large and highly innovative department is undergoing a significant amount of change as it establishes itself as a key enterprise IT partner that works across the University, with stakeholders and key partners to deliver enterprise‑wide products and services in line with strategic aims.

• Manage the SAP Development team and ensure the team are working to consistent technical standards.
• Provide leadership and direction to the team, providing clear guidance and support to get the best out of team members and allowing them to work to a high standard.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Delivery Leads and other teams in product areas to support a roadmap for the entire product area.
• Translate the needs of the business into value‑driven workloads for the team and represent the demands and requirements of the technology back to the organisation.
• Devise or identify technical professional development opportunities for team members to keep skills current.
• Ensure all systems are properly managed, documented and kept up to date.
• Work with integrations, platforms and solutions architecture teams to create and maintain a software development and operations strategy for the department.
• Work as a leader and member of agile project teams as required.
• Act as a technical point of contact in areas of expertise with other colleagues and departments.
• Keep up to date with new technologies and improve existing skills using all available resources.
• Carry out other duties, commensurate with the grade and remit of the post.

Our diverse community of staff and students recognises the unique abilities, backgrounds, and beliefs of all. We foster a culture where everyone feels they belong and is respected. Even if your past experience doesn't match perfectly with this role's criteria, your contribution is valuable, and we encourage you to apply. Please ensure that you reference the application criteria in the application statement when you apply.

Have a good honours degree in a related subject area, equivalent

Application/Interview

Demonstrable leadership skills and experience in supporting and mentoring individuals and building and managing successful, high performing teams.

Application/Interview

Significant experience with running production ERP systems in a complex environment.

Application/Interview

Experience in driving continual improvements to systems, processes and working practices to deliver increased performance, efficiency and quality on the systems we maintain.

Essential Interview

Ability to plan and prioritise the maintainability of our systems through things like documentation, knowledge sharing, standardisation, testing and automation.

Essential Interview

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence people from a wide range of disciplines and to build internal and external networks to deliver business value.

Essential Application/Interview

Ability to analyse and solve problems with an appreciation of longer‑term…